Post-Soviet transition: Improving health services delivery and management

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 436-448

  Antoun, Joseph ^a   Phillips, Frank ^b   Johnson, Tricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Albania; ex Communist countries; new public management; Russia; Semashko

Indexed keywords

ALBANIA; ARTICLE; DRUG INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REIMBURSEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; USSR;

ALBANIA; COMMUNISM; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RUSSIA; TIME FACTORS; USSR;

EID: 79956356356     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20261     Document Type: Article

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